Locust research suggests that physical state has much to do with learning
20th Mar 2006, 15:15 GMT
Behmer studied the phenomena of 'state-dependent learned valuation' in a grasshopper, the African desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria, at the University of Oxford before moving to Texas A&M in August. He collaborated with Dr. Lorena Pompilio, who was then a graduate student, and Dr. Alex Kacelnik, her major adviser. Their study was published in Science on March 17.
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